By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:23:14 +0000

Being to lazy to setup another access point in the front of my house, I signed up and received a free access point from Meraki- it’s not a great internet connection- lots of latency, but it gets me online well enough. My sister-in-law uses it too- and can’t understand why her video chats keep dropping. 2 minutes into a conversation about the principles of QoS and she was throwing up her hands and saying “I hate computers!” I’m not as disappointed as she is, but am curious how they’ll make it usable for more than bare minimum levels of service. Am I going to plug my DSL into it? Maybe- I know how to manage Quality of Service control on my end that gives me priority over my pipe. But nice people without that knowledge will end up losing quality if the let the P2P download junkie next door leach on their DSL line. In the end I probably won’t- isn’t Meraki just trying to take advantage of my good will and Utopian mindset (free internet=good) so that they can turn a profit?

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:59:00 +0000

Interesting… as someone that enjoys using public wireless, this is a welcome development. Maybe they’ll roll out something similar in my neck of the woods. Also, the argument for keeping your wireless unlocked was interesting. Really, it makes sense. I don’t think that the likelihood of someone poaching info from my network due to it being unlocked is any worse that the likelihood of any other random crime. Encryption through the computers instead of on the network makes a lot more sense as well due to the change to increasingly more mobile information technology options.

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By: Jack

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